Category: Sports Archive 2015
HUNTINGTON – It wasn’t a debut to remember for Warsaw’s girls basketball team in a 60-32 loss at Huntington North Saturday night.
WINONA LAKE – North Miami crushed LCA, 71-32, Saturday night in girls hoops.
SOUTH BEND – Notre Dame defeated Wake Forest, 28-7, Saturday to stay in the hunt for a College Football Playoff berth.
WINONA LAKE – Grace College rallied late to overtake Grace Bible College, 72-66, in Saturday’s championship game of the Terry Polston Hoops For Hope men’s basketball tournament at Grace College.
EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern kept its major bowl hopes alive in holding off Purdue, 21-14, Saturday in Big Ten football.
HOUGHTON, N.Y. – Grace College’s cross country team competed at the 2015 NCCAA National Championships on Saturday.
TERRE HAUTE – The Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches released its 2015 cross country Academic All-State and Honorable Mention lists Friday, and Warsaw have seven on the various lists.
SOUTH WHITLEY – Whitko enjoyed a win over county rival Columbia City Friday night in girls hoops action.
SYRACUSE – Westview used a late rally to defeat Wawasee 33-30 in girls basketball action Friday night.
BOURBON – The Triton girls basketball team lost to South Central 42-24 Friday night.
WINONA LAKE – The Lakeland Christian Academy girls basketball team improved to 2-0 Friday night.
WINONA LAKE – The Grace College men’s basketball team stayed undefeated with a big home win Friday night.
WHITING – The Grace College women’s basketball team rolled to an 83-44 win Friday night.
Penn, South Bend St. Joseph and Mishawaka Marian were winners in prep football playoff action Friday night.
NAPPANEE – NorthWood senior Linnzie Richner is now signed on to continue her golf career at IPFW.
GOSHEN – Voting has completed and the mascot steering committee for Goshen High School and Goshen Middle School has a clear winner. Mascot approval will happen Monday at a special school board meeting Monday.
FORT WAYNE – The Fort Wayne Tincaps baseball organization gathered another award after earning the John Henry Moss Award for outstanding community service.
WINONA LAKE – The Grace College basketball teams will host the Hoops for Hopes tourneys the next two weekends.
Area high school football teams will look to continue their postseason success Friday night.
FORT WAYNE – Host Indiana Tech defeated Grace College in women’s basketball play Wednesday night.
MOUNT VERNON, OHIO – The Grace College volleyball team lost 3-1 in the conference tourney semifinals Wednesday night.
Two local men are preparing their wetsuits, goggles and running gear for a weekend that will test them both mentally and physically. Kyle Blackwell, Warsaw, and Andrew Shultz, Columbia City, will soon be competing in arguably one of the world’s most difficult races, World’s Toughest Mudder. The race, better defined as an obstacle course, spans …read more.
BOURBON – Triton cross country star Justina (Reichert) Faulkner was recently honored as a Silver Anniversary team member by the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches.
Several area high school girls basketball teams are among those ranked this week in the ICGSA polls.
WINONA LAKE – Daniel Rodriguez brought his powerful life story to Grace College Wednesday, sharing his experience with the US Army as well as with the University of Clemson football program.
SOUTH BEND – Ballpark Digest announced today that the South Bend Cubs minor league baseball team has been named 2015 Team of the Year.
SYRACUSE – Proceeds from this Friday’s game will go to a worthy cause to support veterans.
NAPPANEE – NorthWood defeated Mishawaka 56-42 in girls basketball action Tuesday night.
WINONA LAKE – LCA needed overtime to clinch a season-opening victory over visiting Caston Tuesday evening.
AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley built and early lead and kept it Tuesday night, beating Culver Academy 57-42 in girls hoops.
GOSHEN – A tough shooting night proved costly for Wawasee in a 42-38 girls basketball loss at Fairfield Tuesday night.
BOURBON – Argos won the girls basketball game Tuesday night over Triton, 57-25. Triton then handed a check to Ounce Of Prevention of Marshall County for the sum of $1,331 to go toward those dealing with cancer.
ALBION – Whitko moved to 2-0 with a win over Central Noble Tuesday night.
SYRACUSE – Winners of the Fall Warrior Way Award.
WINONA LAKE – LCA junior Cross Williams was named NISC First Team and sophomore Garrett McCoomb was named NISC Second Team in boys soccer this season.
SYRACUSE – A preview of local girls swimming for the 2015-16 season.
WINONA LAKE – Grace College swept Bethel College 3-0 in the first round of the Crossroads League volleyball tournament Saturday evening.
WINONA LAKE – Grace College used a late second-half surge to jet past Trinity Christian, 74-61, Saturday afternoon in women’s hoops.
WINONA LAKE – Marian used an early goal to knock out Grace College from the Crossroads League women’s soccer tournament Saturday, 1-0.
WINONA LAKE – Grace College’s men’s soccer team survived penalty kicks to advance past Spring Arbor in the Crossroads League tournament Saturday night.
WEST LAFAYETTE – Illinois had no trouble defeating Purdue, 48-14, in Big Ten football Saturday.
PITTSBURGH – Notre Dame added a quality win to its résumé Saturday with a 42-30 win at Pittsburgh.
HUNTINGTON – Grace College’s Katelyn McCullough made history at the 2015 Crossroads League Championships on Saturday, qualifying for the NAIA National Championships.
WALKERTON – The Triton girls basketball team lost its season opener at John Glenn Friday night.
Scores from area high school football playoff games Friday night.
WOODBURN – A recap from Woodlan’s 22-19 win over Whitko in the IHSAA Class 2A Sectional 35 Championship.
WINONA LAKE – Logan Irwin scored his 1,000th career point to help Grace College stay undefeated Friday night.
Weekly picks of local prep, college and pro football games from IFN sports writer Nick Goralczyk.
NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team won its season opener Thursday night.
SOUTH WHITLEY – A season preview for the Whitko Wildcats girls basketball team.
FORT WAYNE – Whitko exploded out of the gate with a season-opening 90-37 win at Fort Wayne North Thursday night.
SYRACUSE – The Lady Warriors held on for a 46-44 victory over visiting Mishawaka Marian.
AKRON – Four volleyball players from Tippecanoe Valley and Whitko were honored by their conference.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Zach Terrell threw three touchdown passes to Corey Davis and Western Michigan had a school-record 711 yards of total offence in a 54-7 victory over Ball State on Thursday night.
AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley’s girls basketball team opened the season in style with a 49-29 win over Bremen Thursday night.
A slew of fall sports athletes from Tippecanoe Valley and Whitko were honored for academics by the Three Rivers Conference.
Area high school football teams will compete for sectional championships Friday night.
ELKHART – Longtime Jimtown girls basketball coach Gene Johnson says this will be his final season.
ELKHART – The Elkhart County Sports Hall of Fame will honor its 2015 class on Nov. 14.
MISHAWAKA – Bethel College player Savannah Bley, a NorthWood High School grad, was honored by the Crossroads League.
WARSAW — Halloween morning was cold and damp. But that did not deter over 200 runners and walkers from dressing in costumes and participating in the first Lutheran Health Network-KCH Freaky 5K through the Beyer Trail and along the Warsaw Greenway. Over $5,000 was raised and will be given to the Cancer Care Fund of …read more.
SOUTH BEND – A trio of former local high school players helped IUSB to basketball wins Wednesday night.
MISHAWAKA – Clay Yeo and Jordyn Coon helped the Bethel College men’s basketball team to a win Wednesday night.
WARSAW – The Warsaw freshman girls basketball game information against Penn has been changed.
SOUTH WHITLEY – The Whitko football team is set to play for a sectional championship Friday night.
SYRACUSE – A preview of the 2015-16 girls basketball season for Wawasee girls basketball.
NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team has a couple of changes to its 2015-16 schedule.
SOUTH WHITLEY – Whitko quarterback Garrett Elder has had a record-setting season for the Wildcats.
NOTRE DAME – Notre Dame star freshman guard Ali Patberg will miss the women’s college basketball season due to a knee injury.
SOUTH BEND – Minor League Baseball (MiLB) announced at 12 p.m. Eastern time today that the South Bend Cubs professional baseball team has been picked from among all 160 teams in the country to receive the highest honor in MiLB. The team is the 42nd recipient of the annual John H. Johnson President’s Award which …read more.
MUNCIE – Warsaw resident Dan Richard will work a record ninth state volleyball finals this weekend as part of the IHSAA State Volleyball Finals.
WINONA LAKE – Grace’s remarkable soccer seasons were not limited to the pitch this fall. Eight members of Grace’s men’s and women’s soccer teams were named CoSIDA Academic All-District.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Grace’s mens basketball team won a defensive battle, 61-59, Tuesday night at Lawrence Tech.
WINONA LAKE – Grace soccer stars Carianne Sobey and Mallory Rondeau both earned player of the year awards in the Crossroads League among five honors garnered by the Lady Lancers.
MISHAWAKA – Wawasee Pro had successful swims at the Pro Superstar Invitational.
WINONA LAKE – Grace College welcomed athletes from the schools in the NLC for a Sportsmanship Summit on Monday.
GARY – IU-Northwest rallied late to defeat Grace 70-65 in women’s college basketball action Saturday.
PHILADEPHIA – Notre Dame held off Temple, 24-21, in a battle of ranked teams Saturday night.
TERRE HAUTE – Warsaw had fine representation at the IHSAA Cross Country State Finals Saturday afternoon.
WINONA LAKE – A balanced effort led Grace’s volleyball team to a 3-1 win over Marian on Saturday evening.
The remainder of the area participants in the IHSAA volleyball state tournament were defeated Saturday in the various class tournaments around the northern half of Indiana.
WINONA LAKE – Two red cards and one goal headlined Grace’s 1-0 victory over Huntington in the opening round of the 2015 Crossroads League Tournament on Saturday.
INDIANAPOLIS – Marian’s boys soccer team won a state championship while Penn’s girls fell a goal short at the IHSAA soccer state finals.
MUNCIE – Riley Neal threw a touchdown pass, James Gilbert ran 2 yards for a score and Ball State beat Massachusetts 20-10 on Saturday.
WINONA LAKE – Grace’s women’s soccer team opened up the 2015 Crossroads League Tournament with a 1-0 win over Mt. Vernon Nazarene.
WINONA LAKE – No. 14 Grace kicked off the 2015-16 men’s basketball season with a 76-67 win over Wilberforce on Saturday.
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue’s defense forced five turnovers to help the Boilermakers upset Nebraska 55-45 Saturday afternoon at Ross-Ade Stadium.
SOUTH WHITLEY – A recap with quotes, video and photos from Whitko’s thrilling 34-27 win over Churubusco in the sectional 35 semifinals.
WARSAW – A season preview for the 2015-16 Warsaw girls basketball team.
INDIANAPOLIS – Three Warsaw soccer players and Warsaw girls head coach Peter Lucht were tabbed among the All-District selections.
WARSAW – Scores from area sectional games.
WINONA LAKE – Grace’s volleyball team came up short with a 3-0 loss to Huntington on Friday night at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.
Four local athletes are among the candidates for the Wendy’s High School Heisman.
AKRON – The 2015-16 girls basketball season preview for Tippecanoe Valley.
Weekly picks of local prep, college and pro football games from IFN sports writer Nick Goralczyk.
Several area soccer teams and volleyball squads will be in tournament action on Saturday.
There will be plenty of action Friday night as the state tourney series for high school football teams continues.
WINONA LAKE – A preview of the 2015-16 girls basketball season for Lakeland Christian Academy.
WINONA LAKE – The Grace College women’s basketball team edged IUSB 48-46 Wednesday night.
BOURBON – A 2015-16 season preview for the Triton girls basketball team.